Lexmark x74-75 printer - Help with Install?

[Miranova23]

Lexmark x74-75 printer, on my rig, specs in the drop down.

The setup program from the cd opens, I click "Install," select English, and then,
nothing... . . .

I've heard of people getting this to work with Win7 before. How on earth did you get it to work?

 

[Anak]

Hi Miranova!

Yep, searched for Windows 7 Compatibility Center; Lexmark X75 All-in-One Printer - 64-bit, then clicked on the See what the community is saying link, and found this How to make Lexmark X75 All-in-One Printer work with Windows 7 - Microsoft Answers

Hopefully it will work with your hybrid.

 

[epportal3]

Hi my friend...If you want to install the drivers for your "Lexmark X74" on Windows 7 you wont be able to do this cause -> http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=home&locale=en&userlocale=EN_UK look at the compatible OS for it.. And "Lexmark X75" has latest drivers install only for Windows XP 32bit, so I believe you need to change your printer for newer one which is compatible with newer OS systems.
Hope I helped you a bit

 

[epportal3]

The "Lexmark X75" might work on Windows 7 32bit I believe but not too sure...well my eg. I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit system and I've been using Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 sound card which is 2002 make and the drivers are from yh Windows XP

 

[Miranova23]

Hi Miranova!

Yep, searched for Windows 7 Compatibility Center; Lexmark X75 All-in-One Printer - 64-bit, then clicked on the See what the community is saying link, and found this How to make Lexmark X75 All-in-One Printer work with Windows 7 - Microsoft Answers

Hopefully it will work with your hybrid.

Followed that, mostly-- I have the CD, couldn't find the drivers for download. But I did the compatibility checkbox & run as administrator checkbox. Same result as before.

Looking more closely, I've noticed that it doesn't really ask for a language, but it says "The software that you have selected is not available in English. Please select from the list below." And only English is listed. I select & click ok, then the process keeps running for a bit, then just stops without anything else happening. Confusing...


Would there be a shot if I tried safe mode?

 

[Anak]

Sure I would try Safe mode, if that still doesn't work have a look here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

Go over the procedures in Option One, and if that seems "mostly" okay,
Try running the troubleshooter in Option Two,
You may even feel adventurous, and check into the registry settings in Option Three.

If all that fails then take note of the

   Note

Blue note

at the begging of the tutorial, you may have to use an emulator.

 

[Miranova23]

I went ahead with the XP Mode, and turns out that this virtual environment can't see that there's a printer usb plugged in...

I'm going to try Safe Mode-- kept forgetting whenever I'd start up so, lol. I'll try that, too, and post back for how it went.

@epportal3, I know it is listed as not compatible, but I've seen users here saying that they have the same exact one I do, working on 64-bit 7. So tis possible.

 

[Miranova23]

Somehow I only caught it in safe mode: one of the .exe's has "16" on the end. It must be that it's a 16 bit program overall. The Install button wasn't even on the like splash screen where it belongs. =(

Oh well, guess I'm stuck with only printing off my laptop. =/

 

[Anak]

Don't give up now!

Always go to the bottom of the page you are on, you may find threads of similar interest:
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/5612-lexmark-x74-x75-printer.html

A search here at 7F:
Windows 7 Forums - Search Results for Lexmark x74-75 printer

 

[Anak]

I went ahead with the XP Mode, and turns out that this virtual environment can't see that there's a printer usb plugged in...

When you installed XPmode did you also install the Integration Features Pack?
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...egration-features-install-enable-disable.html

 

[Miranova23]

Oh, I knew nothing of this. Okay, going to run through that and try it. Thanks!

 

[Anak]

It is step #15 here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8247-windows-xp-mode-install-setup.html

 

[Miranova23]

Ah, so I already had the Integration Tools installed & enabled, but that did lead me to figuring out that under "USB," I had to "attach" the printer to the virtual machine. The Lexmark setup finally sees that it's connected & it's installed! YES!

So, is this the only way to install a 16-bit program (the All-in-One Center software) on a 64-bit Win 7?
Also, is there any other way I could get at least the driver installed on the 64-bit?

 

[Miranova23]

More like I think the problem with my latter question is finding the specific .inf needle file I need (or something else, if that's mistaken) in this haystack of a cd...

 

[Anak]

To the best of my knowledge you must run a virtualization application such as Virtual PC and create a virtual machine. Install your choice of legacy OS XP in that VM.
Windows Virtual PC: Home Page
http://www.virtualbox.org/
But you are already doing that with XPmode.

The support is just not there for 16 bit applications in any 64-bit version of Windows.

 

[Miranova23]

Okay. I thought maybe that had something to do with the "run in compatibility mode for..." settings. I'd never come across a problem that actually solved. Alright.

But does that mean the driver also is 16bit, or something else that would keep that from being usable?

 

[Anak]

Could you show a screenshot of that file that had the 16 on the end of it?

 

[Miranova23]

There's a few that have 16 appended, but then quite a few have 32. Here are screencaps of all the folders & files I figured relevant.
I recall needing an .inf file for the driver-- if possible, how could I try using these?

All folders on CD:


Drivers->Scan:





Drivers->Win_XP2K:



Program:


Program->32:

 

[Anak]

This may or may not work: http://www.sevenforums.com/software/35468-running-old-16-bit-64-bit-computer.html#post355884 Read the whole thread, not just that post.

Then there is this: 64-bit versions of Windows do not support 16-bit components, 16-bit processes, or 16-bit applications, but you would have to dual boot with a 32bit OS. Still have the old XP Disk?

I hesitate to even suggest this:

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[Miranova23]

Thanks, I'll... play around on that adventure when I'm not pressed for time & my only tool for doing schoolwork -due tonight- is the life giving thing I call my computer.

Lol, seriously, thanks though. I'll look into it sometime when I can. ^u^
Til then, thank you so much for helping get it to a functional state!